Indiana Jones may know all about digging up antiquities, but once discovered and restored, ancient artworks are typically housed in museums. Some are on public view, but many are not. That's because students, scientists, and historians from all over the world need access to them in order to study, analyze, theorize, and restore them. And often, the only way to see and experience them had been with an expensive on-site visit.
Now, with advances in photogrammetry (using photography to survey, measure, and map distances between objects), computing power, and software, academics have an easier way to record, share, and study ancient 3D objects.
The Virtual World Heritage Laboratory (VWHL) is at the forefront of this initiative. Established in 2009 by Bernie Frischer when he was a professor at the University of Virginia, the lab moved with him in 2013 to its current home at Indiana University.
The mission of the laboratory is to track new 3D technologies and experiment with ways they can be applied to support the work of scholars in the traditional fields of cultural heritage (anthropology, archaeology, architectural history, art history, Egyptology, and so forth).
Through its Digital Sculpture Project (www.digitalsculpture.org), the VWHL is pioneering new solutions and applications in this important but neglected area of the digital humanities. It is devoted to studying ways in which 3D digital technologies can be applied to the capture, representation, and interpretation of sculpture from all periods and cultures.
The Digital Sculpture Project, however, fills this gap by focusing on 3D data capture and documentation; digital restoration; digital tools for processing and analysis of digitized sculpture, including colorization; and analysis of earlier forms of sculptural reproduction, particularly the cast.
In the summer of 2016, the VWHL – now hosted by Indiana University's School of Informatics and Computing, in collaboration with partners at the Politecnico di Milano and the University of Florence – started 3D digitization of the complete collection of Greek and Roman sculpture in the Uffizi, Pitti Palace, and Boboli Gardens on behalf of the Gallerie degli Uffizi in Florence, Italy.
Largely assembled by the Medici Family from the 15th to the 18th centuries, the statues include works of exceptional interest to students of Greek and Roman art.
Totaling some 1,250 pieces, the Uffizi houses the third largest collection of ancient Greek and Roman sculpture owned by an Italian state museum. Today, it's best known for its impressive collection of paintings, but from the 16th to 18th centuries, the Uffizi was primarily famous for its ancient sculpture, which the Medici purchased in Rome and transferred to Florence. In that period, the Uffizi's art collection was even called "The Statue Gallery" ("Galleria delle Statue").
The main goal of the VWHL project is to revive interest in the museum's sculpture collection by making it freely available through interactive 3D models on the Internet.
As Frischer points out, things shifted in the 19th century when, thanks to the Romantics, Gothic painters like Giotto, and Renaissance masters like Raphael and Michelangelo, started to outshine the ancient sculptors. "We hope that through our project, the statues will once again receive the attention they deserve," he adds.
The challenge of the Uffizi project is its scale: No one has ever tried to digitize such a large collection of sculpture, though advancements in technology have made the process much quicker. Ten years ago, Frischer could only digitize one sculpture a year; now he and his small team of doctoral students can complete eight in a single day.
"This project was mainly possible because of two key breakthroughs in software that have occurred in the past five years: the arrival of robust, reliable photogrammetry and the implementation of WebGL by most Web browsers," Frischer points out.
Photogrammetry means that students can capture the 3D data of a statue by using digital cameras instead of dedicated devices such as laser and structured light scanners. Cameras are much less expensive than dedicated scanners, and the data collection can be done in orders of magnitude faster by digital photography as compared to scanning.
The team uses a Nikon D810 and Sony a6300 for photography, with Agisoft PhotoScan and Capturing Reality's RealityCapture for processing the photogrammetric data. Then they put the final touches onto the 3D model with Pixologic's ZBrush.
3D digital modeling often encounters a barrier when confronted with the kind of complex geometry that characterizes most sculpture, but photogrammetric software largely automates the task of converting the raw data into a 3D model. With fast video cards, the photogrammetric software the teams use can process the raw data much faster compared to the lengthy workflow of processing scan data. Finally, thanks to WebGL, they then publish the final product – interactive 3D models of the statues as elements of Web pages – which makes studying the pieces easier and more straightforward.
The average life-size statue requires approximately 500 photographs; the model obtained from that contains one point per pixel. Since the Nikon D810 takes photos that are 36 megapixels, this means that the average raw model has 500x36,000,000 points, or 18 billion data points.
The point cloud (the 18 billion points) has to be made into a mesh (that is, the points are joined to form triangles). The triangles furnish the surface onto which textures can be generated so that the surface appearance of the 3D model is quite close to the original statue.
Typically, the textured 3D model has much more data than is needed for visualization on a Web page, so the final step in the process entails decimation of the model to about one million to two million triangles.
"We keep the full, undecimated model to be used when a scholar or museum conservator needs very detailed information about the statue, like when the person wants to be able to see tool marks, scratches, or nicks on the surface," says Frischer.
At 500 36-megapixel photographs per object, and with about 1,250 objects consisting of Greek and Roman statues, inscriptions, sarcophagi, altars, and reliefs, there is a massive amount of data to process.
Many of the statues are displayed against walls. This causes a problem for data capture since the 3D models must contain all sides, including the back. In the project's first year (May through June 2016), Frischer's team – comprising four doctoral students as well as Cristiana Barandoni, the project coordinator based in Florence – concentrated on sculpture exhibited in open areas.
In the second through fifth years, the remaining statues will be moved away from the walls by at least two meters so they can be easily photographed from all angles. This will be time-consuming and costly – one cubic meter of marble weighs 2.7 tons.
The team's partner at the Politecnico di Milano is currently experimenting with lowering a high-quality, albeit very small camera with a wide-angle lens, behind the statues that are situated only a few inches from the walls. The initial results are promising, but experimentation with this approach is still in progress.
Another difficulty the team faces is access; they can only work in the Uffizi on Mondays, when it is closed to the public, and they can only afford to be present in Italy six weeks in the summer. This slows down the pace of the work and explains why the entire project will take five years to complete.
To mitigate this problem, they have involved Professor Gabriele Guidi and his researchers in reverse engineering at the Politecnico di Milano, which is a short 90-minute bullet train ride away from Florence.
Technicians edit the images, and the final result is then optimized and uploaded to a Web service, which then generates an embedded code that is added to the project webpage.
The laboratory is based in Bloomington, Indiana, but the project itself is in Florence, a continent away. To this end, another challenge the group faced was getting the computing speed required to process these huge images on-site.
The Shuttle's small form factor provides them with all the key components they need to do their work, especially the possibility of using the latest video cards, without all the bulk and weight that a tower entails. The Shuttle gave the group mobility without having to sacrifice computing power.
The team also works with Indiana University's Information Technology Services (UITS) to port the photogrammetric software to a high-performance computing platform, which allows them to speed up processing time and handle more objects at the same time. The data is collected in Italy and FTP'd to Indiana University for backup and storage.
The entire collection is expected to be processed, uploaded, and available on Indiana University's website by 2020.
While there is still a great deal of work to be done, Frischer is optimistic: Through this project at one of the world's most visited and respected museums, the word will quickly get out that they have now entered what he likes to call "The Golden Age of 3D" when it comes to digitization of three-dimensional objects such as statues, archaeological sites, and buildings.
Compared to just five or six years ago, costs have decreased dramatically, processing time has been greatly reduced, and the results can be easily embedded on a Web page or used as an asset on the new VR and AR devices.
Nancy Napurski is a technology writer and has worked in CG for many years.


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Who is facing criminal prosecution for the Flint water scandal?
When the much-maligned emergency manager and other officials in Flint, Michigan, switched the municipal water supply from Detroit Water & Sewerage to the Flint River, they unleashed a disaster -- and a national scandal. Many Flint residents' tap water contained poisonous levels of lead and other contaminants, requiring them to use bottled water for drinking, cooking and even bathing.
Worse, evidence has surfaced that some officials involved in the switch knew or should have known there was a problem, according to the ABA Journal. The more-corrosive Flint River water would leach lead out of pipes and poison the city's tap water unless the water system made approximately $8 million in system upgrades and added corrosion control chemicals at the plant.
Michigan Attorney General Bill Schuette is under enormous pressure to bring dramatic criminal charges at the highest level. Could Flint's much-maligned emergency manager, state water or health officials, or even Governor Snyder be held criminally responsible?
Felony charges filed against 3 for manipulating lead tests, 6 others facing misdemeanors
In civil court, Schuette has filed lawsuits against two consulting firms for allegedly causing Flint's water problems to "occur, continue and worsen." Private attorneys have filed numerous lawsuits on behalf of affected individuals and classes of residents. Nonprofits including the Natural Resources Defense Council and the NAACP are also suing over the issue.
As far as criminal charges are concerned, Schuette has so far brought charges against only nine people, all low-level officials. However, the investigation is ongoing.
The criminal complaint accuses Flint's former lab and water quality supervisor and two officials from the Department of Environmental Quality of manipulating test results by instructing residents to flush their taps before taking samples. That would have resulted in false, low readings of lead in the water.
The three men were charged in April with felony misconduct, neglect of duty, violation of the Safe Drinking Water Act, and conspiracy to tamper with evidence. In May, one man pled no contest to misdemeanor willful neglect of duty and is said to be cooperating with the investigation.
In July, Schuette filed misdemeanor charges of misconduct and willful neglect of duty against six more state employees; three from Health and Human Services and three from the Department of Environmental Quality.
As we watch in helpless outrage as the Flint crisis unfolds, it's easy to throw blame around. We all want those who caused so much harm and heartbreak to be held accountable. It is important to remember that proving criminal responsibility beyond a reasonable doubt requires evidence.
In such a complex case, clear evidence of guilt can only be discovered with time and work. Until all the facts are in, we simply can't know who was responsible -- and who was not.

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Go Inside: The Duke of Windsor's Bahamas Estate Is On Sale for $8.5M
Sigrist House, a Bahamian estate once occupied by the Duke of Windsor and Wallis Simpson, is on the market.
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If you've ever wanted to live like a British royal, now's your chance, as the Duke of Windsor's estate on the island of New Providence in the Bahamas is on the market for $8.5 million.
Edward Albert Christian George Andrew Patrick David, Prince of Wales, King Edward VIII, and finally Duke of Windsor ended up as governor of the Bahamas, after abdicating as King of England in 1936 in order to marry American divorcee Wallis Simpson. The couple went into exile in France, but had plans to return to England in a few years. However, his mother, Queen Mary, said she would cut off his allowance if he returned to Britain. So the Duke and Simpson went on a tour of Germany against the advice of the Crown. Their presence in Germany initiated gossip among the British that he had become a Nazi sympathizer. For this reason, the Duke was sent to the Bahamas to be governor in 1940. Feeling that he was sent to the Caribbean archipelago to be forgotten, he resigned in March 1945. The couple took up with elite society in North America, and later retired in France. The Duke is buried in the Royal Burial Ground in Britain.
The Windsors moved into the expansive country estate in New Providence while waiting for the Government House to be renovated. It was built in the Spanish colonial-style by British movie producer Frederick Sigrist in the 1930s. The four-acre estate is located just outside of Nassau on a ridge overlooking the ocean and bay. Although the main residence of Sigrist House is a Spanish-colonial, it also has British character with its wood-paneled walls and fireplaces, four of which were imported from homes in the English country, reports TopTenRealEstateDeals.com. In addition, the mahogany walls were shipped to England for finishing and shipped back to Nassau to be installed in the home. The main residence has four bedrooms, terraces, and loggia that open onto the gardens. There is also a three-bedroom apartment, and two four-bedroom guest houses on the property. The lush tropical grounds feature flower gardens, and fruit and coconut trees. The swimming pool (which definitely needs a freshening in my humble opinion) and spa have views of the ocean and manicured grounds.
Although the property retains its original charm, reports TopTenRealEstateDeals.com, it has also been updated and modernized with refurbished roofs, electrical wiring, and plumbing. The wood and ironwork have also been restored.
The property has played host to many dignitaries, as it is considered one of the most elegant estates in the Bahamas, according to TopTenRealEstateDeals.com, along with being home to the Duke of Windsor and Simpson in 1940.
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Cinemax Picks Up Bruce Lee-Inspired Drama Warrior From Banshee Creator
By Dave Nemetz / June 7 2017, 10:31 AM PDT
Cinemax is serving up another high-octane action series… this one springing from the mind of an iconic action star.
The network that gave us Strike Back and Banshee has now given a straight-to-series order to Warrior, a martial-arts drama inspired by an idea from the legendary Bruce Lee. Set in the crime-ridden Chinatown of 1870s San Francisco, Warrior centers on Chinese immigrant and martial-arts expert Ah Sahm, who becomes a hatchet man for one of Chinatown's most formidable crime families. (And lots of punching and kicking is sure to ensue.)
Banshee creator Jonathan Tropper created the series and will executive-produce, along with Fast and the Furious franchise director Justin Lin. The ten-episode first season will shoot in Cape Town, South Africa this fall.
"Warrior follows in the spirit of the tradition of adrenalized Cinemax dramas that we established with Strike Back and Banshee," Cinemax programming president Kary Antholis said in a statement. "We are brimming with excitement for this unique martial-arts series combining Bruce Lee's inspired conception with the immense storytelling talents of Jonathan Tropper and Justin Lin."
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Idli Recipe is one of the simple breakfast recipes which can be made in minutes. Making soft and spongy idli can be done in two ways either by adding ravva or rice.
It is one of the staple proteins packed breakfast in South India. As it's cooked on steam, its caloric values don't get burnt.
If you are thinking how to make Soft Idli Recipes then there are few points one should be taken care. Urad dal must be insect free and new, make use of rock salt or non-iodized salt and maintain warm temperature for better fermentation.
You may also like other snack recipes like Cabbage Vada, Ulundu Vadai, Adai Recpie, Masala Dosa and Samosa.
Idli Rava Recipe - South Indian Staple breakfast recipe. Learn how to make soft and spongy idli recipe with step by step instructions.
Soak urad dal and idli rava separately for 6 hours.
Grind urad dal to a soft batter, if needed add the appropriate quantity of water to make it soft.
Add rava to idli batter and maintain adequate concentration.
Tip: If the batter is loose then remove excess water in rava by squeezing it.
We may add salt either during fermentation or while putting the batter in idli vessels.
Grease idli plates with oil so that idli can be removed non-sticky.
In a steamer vessel, add required amount of water and place this idli plates into it gently.
Tip: Add little batter in the molds so that it doesn't spill out of the plates.
Cook for 10 minutes and check its hardness, by this time you will find it soft.
Note: Overcooking will make idli recipe hard.
Serve hot with sambar or chutney.
Wash urad dal and soak for at least 6 hours.
If using whole urad dal you need to clean well until its skin gets peeled off.
If you are using poha then add them to urad dal and soak them along with it.
Clean idli ravva so that there are no insects. Soak ravva separately.
Drain excess water from dal and poha/ rava, transfer to a grinding jar.
Add rock salt (optional, you can even add during fermenting).
While grinding add little water occasionally.
Tip: Add little dal as per your jar and make sure the batter doesn't get hot while grinding, as it makes idli hard.
Make sure the batter is not runny, it should be a bit thick.
Remove excess water from ravva by squeezing with hand.
Mix ravva and batter in a single vessel and mix well with your hands.
Keep aside in a warm place for 6-12 hours so that batter gets fermented and get Soft and Spongy Idli Recipe.
Tip: I prefer whole night if its winter ill cover the vessel with the bigger vessel to maintain warm condition while fermenting.
Tip: If you feel the batter is thick you can add a little water. Also, few people add salt while fermenting rather while grinding.
Grease idli plates/molds and pour batter into it.
Pour water in a steamer and place this molds.
Tip: Don't put extra batter into the mold, it may get spilled.
Cook on medium high flame for 10 minutes. Off the flame and leave it for a minute or two so that it gets cooked over steam.
Tip: While removing idli's put spoon in cold water and remove them easily.
Serve sponge soft idli recipe with sambar or coconut chutney.


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Marcus Stroman is thriving through continued tinkering
The Stro Show and his sinker are dazzling every fifth (or so) day in Flushing.
By Randy_Holt May 14, 2021, 9:00am EDT
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Marcus Stroman is one of my absolute favorite pitchers to watch in professional baseball. Which is interesting because usually my favorite pitchers throw 200 MPH and have breaking pitches that graphically shatter the knees of opposing hitters (something I imagine to be largely the case with anyone). Stroman doesn't necessarily do that. Then again, he really doesn't have to.
There's definitely something to be said about a guy without overpowering stuff who can locate and get the results he craves, even without the sexy numbers coming in high volumes. It's also worth noting that Stroman has had an extraordinarily interesting career to this point. While it feels like he's been pitching out of Queens forever, this is only his first full season with the New York Mets. Weird, right? But just has been the case throughout his career prior to his 2019 arrival, he continues to evolve.
The early returns for Stroman in 2021 have been really strong, as he's anchored a starting staff that has gone through it from a health perspective. His season, to date, features a 1.99 ERA (ninth among 69 qualifying starters), a 3.12 FIP (24th), a 1.99 BB/9 (ninth), a 1.03 WHIP (27th), and a 56.6 percent groundball rate (sixth). It's a nice group of figures for a guy who ranks 57th among those starters in strikeouts (7.52 per nine) and sits in just the 16th percentile in HardHit% against (46.6)—although it is important to note that the skill set that Stroman does possess in the secondary stuff does lead him to fool his fair share of hitters; he's a fixture on Pitching Ninja.
Marcus Stroman, Nasty 87mph Slider. pic.twitter.com/pkB5i4nUMJ
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He just doesn't do it at as high a volume of some other arms we'd classify as elite. And, again, he doesn't have to and the Mets don't need him to.
The basis of my sweeping declaration of how interesting Stroman's career has been lies purely in his usage and how it's changed over the course of his career. Here's his year-to-year Pitch%:
via Baseball Savant
The four-seamer is virtually gone at this point. The sinker usage dipped in 2019, but it's way back up now. The slider has remained relatively constant since its usage jumped in 2017-18. The cutter spiked in '19 and is now back to 2016 levels. It's just an intense array of usage. So who's to say that his pitch mix in 2021 will even last, let alone work?
The underlying figures and trends for Marcus Stroman are wildly interesting. Opposing hitters are swinging at a 53.2 percent rate. That's the third-highest mark in the league, but it's also Stroman's personal highest by, like, seven percent. Conversely, his CSW% (25.9) ranks near the very bottom of that group of qualifying starters. Which is the lowest of his career. More swings, less whiffs, and a lot of hard contact on a .256 BABIP would seem to indicate that a regression is on the way for Stroman. But what if it doesn't?
The thing with Stroman is that he has always been a very contact-oriented pitcher. Through his own evolution and tinkering with pitches, that's never changed. So, really, a 77.2 percent contact rate, which puts him 22nd among those qualified starters, really isn't that concerning. It's actually the lowest of his career. And while his GB% is lower than some of his previous seasons, it's still, uh, sixth among starters.
Yeah, hard contact is maybe, probably an issue. But Stroman's pumping sinkers far more than any other pitch. He throws it over 45 percent of the time to a Whiff% of just 14.2. But it's not designed to get strikeouts. He's only posted a Whiff% over 15 with that pitch a single time. And it was 16.1 percent. Stroman also has spin working in his favor. He sits in just the 40th percentile in fastball velocity, averaging 92.7 on the sinker. But he's in the 83rd in fastball spin. He's increased that spin every single year. He's at 2388 RPM on it this year. And he's generating groundball contact with that pitch all over the zone:
via FanGraphs
So he's obviously not going to garner high volume punchouts in deploying that pitch as often as he does. Meanwhile, the slider (24.1 percent) and the cutter (15.7), which serve as his second and third pitch based on usage, are going for whiff rates of 34.7 and 33.3 percent, respectively. Could he generate more whiffs with those two pitches, both of which he has a historical precedent for utilizing more often? Sure. Does he need to? With high spin and the fact that hitters are mashing that ball directly into the ground, probably not.
Pitch usage aside, Stroman's command has also been better. He's putting pitches where he wants to. His 1.99 BB/9 is the lowest of his career. The slider is a particular favorite of mine:
Yeah, that'll play. The sinker's clearly working the way he wants it to all over the zone. The slider pictured here looks just as it should against hitters of both handedness. Overall, though, his pitch locations look far more concentrated than they have in years past:
So to kind of shorten up the point here, what does Marcus Stroman need to do in order to stave off any kind of regression after this strong start? More than anything, it's probably for the Mets to play competent defense behind him, given the heavy groundball rates. It was a challenge last year, but it hasn't hurt Stroman specifically to this point that the Mets rank in the bottom half of the league in most defensive metrics to this point. Should he struggle with command or the defense just falls apart entirely, it's possible he could turn to those other pitches. But the fact that he doesn't have to, as is, speaks to how effective he is in knowing exactly what he's trying to do up on the bump.
To take things one step further, we—and by "we" you know who I mean, because it isn't "me"—spend so much time litigating Trevor Bauer and lauding him as a genius for the focus on spin rates and tinkering with usage and the like. But perhaps we spend a little more time focusing on someone like Marcus Stroman, who doesn't have traditionally nasty or sexy stuff on the hill, but has utilized those ideas in such a way that he's currently presenting as the best version of himself.
Randy Holt is a contributing writer for Beyond the Box Score.


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Early Puberty Tied to Obesity in Girls
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A review of more than 100 studies found overweight girls tend to reach puberty earlier than their peers do.
While some researchers have argued hitting puberty early in life makes a person at higher risk for metabolic syndrome and diabetes, Emily Walvoord, M.D., pediatric endocrinologist and review author, found such diseases are not linked to early puberty, but obesity.
The review appears online in the Journal of Adolescent Health.
"Early puberty is one of the many outcomes of obesity," said Walvoord, a professor at the Indiana University School of Medicine. "There are clearly other factors we don't understand that have affected the timing."
While childhood obesity is a growing epidemic, she suggested other factors include a possible increase in hormone-disrupting chemicals in the environment and more chronic stress in children's homes.
Mounds of research on the topic exist, but each study parses data differently, leading to scattered results. "It's very hard really to scientifically scrutinize the timing of puberty just by looking at these studies," she said.
Despite the wealth of attention the early start of puberty has received in the last 15 years, Walvoord said many unanswered questions exist, none more troubling than that of the psychological impact. The long-term effect on adolescents is still unclear.
Girls who reach puberty early are more likely to experience negative body image, depression and other mental disorders. However, those mental health issues also link closely to obesity, so it is difficult to untangle cause and effect.
Jane Mendle, psychology professor at the University of Oregon, said those in her field know the psychological effects of early puberty well. "Whether or not that knowledge has been translated in the way it could or should be to the general population, I'm not sure."
Mendle said girls who mature earlier tend to land in social situations they are not psychologically prepared to handle. Because of that, they might develop psychological issues during puberty.
While research on boys and puberty is thin compared to girls, Mendle said her recent work suggests the deciding factor for the emotional influence on boys might be the duration of puberty, while it is timing for girls.
"It could be that with boys by trying to focus on timing we're sort of barking up the wrong tree," she said.
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May 3, 2011 11:30am
Research In Motion (NASDAQ:RIMM) co-CEO Mike Lazaridis used his keynote session at the company's Capital Markets Day to offer a robust defense of the company's strategy. At the same time, he acknowledged that the company could have introduced its products, especially its PlayBook tablet, to market faster--but he said RIM is focused on delivering the best products possible.
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Let's See How Well You Know Your World Airports
By CF on May 26, 2015 | 33 Comments
Posted in: Airports
I'm still on vacation, so it seemed like a great time to put another airport quiz up. I will be slower at approving any flagged comments and responding to any emails. I'll be back as usual on Monday.
In January I put together a quiz to see how many domestic US airports you could identify by terminal silhouette. The feedback was great, so I've taken it international. Fair warning: this one is a lot harder.
Below, you'll find 12 silhouettes of airports around the world. See how many you can get right, and talk about it in the comments.
World Airports
You've already tried US airports, but now let's take on the world. The following 12 outlines depict the terminal buildings at airports outside the US. This is way more challenging, so good luck!
Buenos Aires/Ezeiza
Mumbai's old, cramped terminals are on the left with the big and brand new international palace-of-planes on the right.
London/Heathrow
Tokyo/Haneda
Like many Australian airports, Sydney has its domestic terminals (right) across the airport from the international terminal.
Frankfurt's sleek lines look like a dragon, though many people forget about Terminal 2 on the right.
Tokyo/Narita
Sao Paulo/Guarulhos
Terminals 1 and 2 in the middle are the original terminals. Terminal 3 at left is a former hangar that serves domestic low cost carriers. Terminal 4 on the right is the gleaming new Star Alliance terminal.
Narita is divided quite nicely by alliance. Terminal 1, at left, is primarily SkyTeam in the two north concourses. The south concourses are dominated by ANA and fellow Star Alliance members. Terminal 2, at right, is for Japan Airlines and oneworld members.
Terminal C is pretty much all that's left in Baghdad. It was renovated after the war died down.
Paris/Charles de Gaulle
Rome/Fiumicino
With Terminal 5 at left and Terminal 2 at right, you can see the plan for aligning Heathrow in an east/west fashion compared to the tilted alignment of old terminals 1 and 3 and the random placement of Terminal 4 on the other side of the south runways.
Johannesburg coincidentally has a terminal design that looks like one of Oscar Pistorius's legs.
It's hard to fathom just how big Beijing's Terminal 3 (at right) is compared to the much smaller older terminals.
Bangkok/Suvarnabhumi
Dubai doesn't look like much, but those satellites at the bottom can hold dozens of A380s. Terminal 2 at top is primarily for low cost carriers.
Shanghai/Pudong
Singapore has 3 terminals that wrap around a central roadway.
A 16th century landscape painting
Hieroglyphics discovered in Egypt
Secret World War II code used by the Japanese
It's hard to understand how an airport could have ever been designed like this with Terminal 1 at the top left, Terminal 3 the speck to the right, and then the behemoth stretch of 7-part Terminal 2 at bottom… but now you know why connections at Paris/CDG are no fun at all.
33 Responses to Let's See How Well You Know Your World Airports
PH says:
Hey Cranky,
Unrelated to this post, but I have just discovered via Google your fascinating three part 'behind the scenes at Korean Air' series from 2013, which I have thoroughly enjoyed reading. Only thing is, most of the images in those posts seem to be missing / coming up as dead links. I have really enjoyed the text, but if there's any way you can make the images come back that would be even better!
crankyflier says:
PH – Ah yes, a sore spot for me. I had a problem with photos on the site getting corrupted a few years ago and these posts were all messed up. I've looked everywhere to try to find the originals but somehow they've disappeared. I've tried everything but sadly, they're gone. Sorry about that.
Nick Barnard says:
Hrm, the Internet Archive seems to have the pictures: https://web.archive.org/web/20130613151415/http://crankyflier.com/2013/06/10/72-hours-with-korean-air-getting-to-korea-trip-report/
Nick – Amazing find! I could have sworn I looked through that back when I was trying to find the pics, but somehow I guess I missed them. But I was so excited to find them that I put them back up right away.
Yeah the IA may have had an issue with one of their servers at the time you checked or something.
Bit slow coming back to this, but THANK YOU for restoring those images! Well worth seeing.
JMR says:
4 out of twelve, not half bad. If there would have been more European airports, I would haven been disappointed in myself, but with many Asian airports, I'm okay :)
ChuckMO says:
All 12 correct in 3:55. Really had to think about Baghdad.
Luiz says:
3 in 12, but one was a wild guess. Cranky, in fact Guarulhos new international terminal is #3
(I'm sitting at it right now). Terminal 4 is the old hangar that serves Azul flights.
Luiz – Thanks for the update on that.
12/12 in 2:40. CDG hieroglyphics made my day!
SDFDuck says:
7/12… not bad considering I've never been to any of those aside from LHR nearly 20 years ago!
5/12, that's four I've been to plus Dubai (so just 1/8 of the ones I guessed, which is quite low). Too bad CDG was a giveaway — that one I actually recognized in and instant.
James Burke says:
4/12. Not the best, not the worst. Blew it on LHR…
Ernesto says:
Hi, your description of GRU in #4 is not fully correct. Terminal 3 is TAM (one world) and T4 is Azul and other domestic (low cost, Passarinho?). Also terminal 3 is actually connected to T1 and 2 by a long walking 2nd floor corridor.
10 out of 12. I'm heading for the grocery store to buy a lotto ticket.
Nick G says:
9 out of 12 and I owe it primarily to exploring airports and other world wide sites on Google Earth.
Bill Hough says:
I aced it in 3:58. Guess I have too much time on my hands.
MeanMeosh says:
4/12. At least I got Mumbai right.
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Vickie says:
I'm having the same problem as well!
Also 7/12 which is not bad considering I have only been to CDG…what a weird place ( I was in terminal 1 for United) But I have also looked at maps and such online so that's how I got some of them!
I am also having the same problem on IE11. I used my phone to read these comments.
Pitythedelta says:
Me too on chrome for Mac.
7 correct in 2:51. Hot damn! Admittedly I only got some based on narrowing down the incorrect ones from you options. Gotta love multiple choice.
7/12. That's with guessing at most of them! Thanks for putting this together!
oldiesfan6479 says:
75% (9 of 12). Time 04:44.
I got six outta twelve.. Not bad for never having been off of the North American Continental Plate.
Although apparently I went drinking with a bunch of Europeans in Germany over the weekend… Twitter is weird.
Matt B. says:
8/12. I can't believe a couple of the ones I missed. I haven't visited most of them but love looking at airports on Google Earth. It'd be easier for me if I saw a satellite picture instead of an outline. Thanks for putting it together Brett.
Sanjeev M says:
12/12 in 2:33. Although Baghdad was a complete guess
6 out of 12 and missed 2 that before doing the quiz I thought were a sure thing (Heathrow and Beijing). Pretty bad after going 12 for 12 in the US airports.
Al B says:
4/12 in 4:27. Would have taken less time without reading the comments, but then what would be the point? Only knew LHR and CDG for sure (the only two I've been to although it's been 40 and 16 years respectively). Others were lucky guesses.
6 out of 12. Would have done better than 50% but that was the WORST drawing of Dubai's terminals I've ever seen. It was the only airport in the group I had actually been to and I still couldn't recognize it (I don't count Frankfurt in 1980 as it was too long ago for me to remember its layout).
Antal says:
Narita has also Terminal 3, a few minutes by feet from terminal 2.
Antal – Yeah, sorry about that. I actually put this together a couple months ago before Terminal 3 opened at Narita.
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Last week, Intel announced a series of updates to its strategy and roadmap that signal the biggest change in direction the chip maker has made in years. Intel CEO Brian Krzanich said the company is now taking more of a "market-driven" view of the industry and is committed to bringing innovation to the market more quickly.
Looking over all of the changes, I see a company that is emphasizing tablets more than ever before, to the point of prioritizing chips aimed at tablets over designs aimed at phones. It's even moving Atom-based, tablet-focused chips into the mainstream notebook space where the company's Core series has dominated for years. Of course the company continues to focus on the data center space and it also seems poised to do more work as a chip foundry for other chip designers. What seems to be getting less focus in all of this is the Core series of processors that have dominated the desktop and notebook space for the last several years.
The emphasis on tablets was apparent in both the conversations and the roadmaps. Intel Chairman Andy Bryant said the company seemed to have lost its way and was in denial on tablets. Now, he said, that has changed. Intel CFO Stacy Smith showed a chart of how Intel has been focused on the traditional PC market, where it accounted for—and still accounts for—80 percent of the sales, but without a focus on the larger market, where Intel is only about 20 percent of its sales.
As a result, Smith said the company will increase its investment in tablets by 75 percent in 2014 compared with 2012, while investing 10 percent more in data centers, five percent less in PCs, and 20 percent less in phones.
The phone decrease was a surprise to me given how strongly the company has said it wants to be in that market over the past few years, though it may be a reflection of just how little success Intel has had and how difficult the market is.
The new roadmap for tablets and phones for next year shows the previously announced Merrifield dual-core Atom chip shipping in the first half of 2014, along with a standalone LTE Advanced chip. This will join the recently shipping Bay Trail platform for tablets. Both Merrifield and Bay Trail are based on the 22nm Silvermont Atom core. In the second half of the year, Merrifield will be joined by Moorefield, a quad-core Silvermont version. In an era where most of Intel's competitors are talking four-core and even eight-core versions, this seems to be a necessary addition. But where Qualcomm offers chips with integrated 3G and LTE modems, and other vendors seem close to having that feature, Intel still will need to make do with a separate modem chip. That's much less of an issue in the tablet market, where motherboard space isn't at quite the premium and where manufacturers want the flexibility of offering both Wi-Fi-only and Wi-Fi/cellular models.
For the tablet market, Intel says Bay Trail will be succeeded by Cherry Trail in the second half of 2014, offering a new Atom core known as Airmont, next-generation graphics, and manufactured on the firm's 14nm process. That should allow for a chip that is both more powerful and more power-efficient while being less expensive to manufacture.
For the phone market, the end of 2014 should see a new chip called SoFIA, based on technology Intel acquired from Infineon, with an x86 core replacing the ARM core and initially with an integrated 3G modem. One interesting twist is this chip will be produced by an external foundry (as is true for the Infineon modems today). This seems a pretty clear admission that the existing strategy of Atom chips with separate modems wasn't working, especially in the low-end parts of the market. Note this is 3G-only; the 4G version will come out later.
The roadmap now includes a new 14nm chip designed for "mid-2015," called Broxton, another 14nm chip but based on a new version of the Atom core, this one called Goldmont. Intel didn't give a lot of details on this but it still appears not to come in a version with an integrated modem, so while the company says it has converged cores for tablets and phones, it's likely to be mostly used in tablets. In 2015, the SoFIA line will get an update to LTE, making it more competitive, though still aimed mostly at the value segment of the market.
Going forward, Krzanich said Intel will focus on a broader set of customers. The company is now offering more kinds of foundry services, though to date it only has a few customers such as Achronix, Altera, and Netronome. This is a big change from the Intel of years past, which looked at its foundry business mostly as an adjunct to the main business of making its own processors. In particular, the company said it will now offer custom foundry services for chips for smartphones and entry mobile devices, as well as the current FPGAs and ASICs.
Intel President Renee James also highlighted how the company is not only procuring full foundry services for those customers, but is also giving its key customers the ability to create semi-custom parts based on the Intel Architecture.
To me, one of the biggest changes is in the PC space. As previously, Kirk Skaugen, general manager of the PC client group, pushed 2-in-1 devices and Ultrabooks. He said the 14nm generation l headed by the Broadwell chip (the successor to the Haswell and Ivy Bridge processors that form today's Core line) will offer more performance and use lower power, with better graphics. In other words, pretty much exactly what you'd expect from a new generation. But he was more explicit than I've seen before that the Silvermont-based Atom processor line, including the Bay Trail platform, is going to be a big part of entry-level notebooks, all-in-ones, and tower designs. The current Core i3-4500U is still twice as fast as a BayTrail-M N2910, thus leaving room for both designs in the market.
Still, that's a big step away from the previous strategy where the Core line dominated the desktop and notebook markets, and the lower-end versions (sold as Pentium or Celeron) were stripped down Core processors. Now it appears that lower-end segment will instead get Atom-based products.
Overall, it looks like a big change in both the roadmap and priorities.


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On the murder rate for prostitutes
No comprehensive figure is available, but based on informal reporting through her own networks, Kinnell suggests that 134 sex workers, including a small number of transsexuals, are known or believed to have been killed since 1990.
And there are thought to be about 80,000 in the trade.
Total adult population is something like 50 million (close enough for this sort of thing) and annual murder rate is about 800 isn\'t it?
So we\'ve 16,000 murders over that same 20 year period.
320 murders per million over a 20 year times span. That gives us 1.6 per 100,000 per year which isn\'t far off the 1.7 actually recorded. Hurrah, Timmy can remember rough magnitudes of the murder rate!
If we\'ve 134 murders of sex workers over 20 years and a population of 80,000, so, multiply by 1.25 and divide by 20 to give us the annual rate per 100,000…..8.4 per hundred thousand. That makes sex work about as dangerous (looking solely at the murder rate) as Lithuania. Indeed, a girl coming in from Russia or Brazil (both not unusual sources) is lowering her chance of being murdered by moving from the general population in those countries to the sex trade in the UK.
I\'ve been looking for tables of the annual death rate for other occupations (trawlermen, forestry workers etc) and cannot seem to find them. If anyone knows where they are so we can compare them then do let us all know. I can find PMRs but that\'s not the same thing at all, or at least we can\'t directly compare them to the rate per 100,000 per year.
BTW, this isn\'t to try and say that the life of a prostitute is worth less, nor to say that they deserved it or anything. Just, rather, to try and put these reported rates into some sort of proportion. Four to five times the rate in the general population, lower than the rate in many other countries.
And no, of course, comparing the murder rate with the crude death rate of other occupations isn\'t right either (for there are many other things one might die of that are occupationally related than murder) but again, it would be interesting to see what the death rate, by, say, accident, is for those known to be high risk male occupations like deep sea fishing, fireman, etc. Anyone got them?
A 2009 study by the School of Medicine at Swansea University claimed commercial fishing is Britain\'s most hazardous occupation. The study reported a fatal accident rate of 102 per 100,000 fishermen, which is more than 100 times riskier than the average British worker. By comparison the next most hazardous rate was for dockers at 28 per 100,000, with roofers and scaffolders at about 12 per 100,000.
Prostitution, over ten times safer than commercial fishing, three times safer than being a docker and safer even than roofing or scaffolding.
But then as the late, great Douglas Adams pointed out, the one thing a human being cannot afford to have is a sense of proportion.
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Edward Lud December 23, 2010 at 10:40 am
I seem to recall reading, I think in an article by Ross Clarke, that lorry driving has a comparatively high death rate.
In my own field, barristering, there is I believe a comparatively high suicide rate. The slaughter of Mark Saunders of course put us up there with Brazilian electricians and middle-aged progresses in terms of the risk we face from police.
Accordingly my valet is under strict instructions not to leave me alone with the razor blades.
Timdifano December 23, 2010 at 11:12 am
The annual death rate for US Presidents by assassination is 4 deaths in 122 yrs times 100,000 thus giving about 3200 per 100,000per year. The laws of small numbers should be applied I know, but still the job seems to be a lot worse than prostitution…
Ross December 23, 2010 at 11:17 am
"That makes sex work about as dangerous (looking solely at the murder rate) as Lithuania. Indeed, a girl coming in from Russia or Brazil (both not unusual sources) is lowering her chance of being murdered by moving from the general population in those countries to the sex trade in the UK."
Well the murder rate for women in Lithuania, Russia or Brazil is going to be a lot less than the general rate. I'd be surprised if there are many countries where the female murder rate is as high as 8 per 100 000.
Jim December 23, 2010 at 11:23 am
According to this page at the HSE (http://www.hse.gov.uk/agriculture/hsagriculture.htm#fatal) farmers, farm workers and foresters faced a death rate of 9.7 per 100,000 in 2007/8.
So that means a Polish man coming to the UK to work on a farm is in more danger than a Polish woman coming here and ending up in prostitution.
Neil Craig December 23, 2010 at 12:12 pm
However I think the unlawful killing rate among women is considerably lower (they don't get into bar fights). I don't know but I wouldn't be surprised at half the overall rate. Also prostitures who get killed not "in the line of work" would presumably be part of the general figures not the prostitute estimate.
blokeinfrance December 23, 2010 at 12:22 pm
The death rate for gardeners run over by their own lawnmowers is, apparently, three per year. I've no idea how many gardeners there are, and I can't remember how this fascinating factoid lodged in my head. Happy Christmas to all.
Ian B December 23, 2010 at 2:24 pm
And if the bloody puritans would stop telling everybody to despise prostitutes, and making them work outside the law, and so on, it would be a lot lower. There's a reason the serial prostitute killer was a Victorian invention.
Edward Lud December 23, 2010 at 2:39 pm
Of course, I meant "protesters". Middle-aged protesters.
paul ilc December 23, 2010 at 3:57 pm
Depends, Tim, on on the method of prostitution. Obviously, an 'escort' whose agency does basic checks on her clients is at much less risk than a street-walker.
Anti-Yorkshireman December 23, 2010 at 7:22 pm
For many years the two most dangerous trades were fishermen and quarrymen. Some people would threaten to take a swipe at you if you mentioned that during the miners' strikes.
David Gillies December 23, 2010 at 7:53 pm
There's a long-running show on Discovery Channel called The Deadliest Catch, about several crews of Alaskan crab fishermen. They claim it's the most dangerous job in the world. Lumberjacks historically had some fairly grim statistics associated with their work but I think the mechanisation of the trade has gone a long way to mitigate that in recent years (which is a general trend, and a good thing – no-one cares f a robot gets destroyed in a mining accident, unless you're Bender from Futurama.) Then there's anomalous things like combat troops in wartime. RAF Bomber Command, for example. Aircrew: dead man walking. Groundcrew: not much more likely to cop it than any Tom, Dick or Harry. Or my Dad, who served 1941-46 in one of those bits of the Empire the Jerries never got round to playing silly buggers with, while his best mate got killed at Arnhem. They were both soldiers, and they were both at war. One had a double-decker bus full of offspring and the other got it in the neck at 22. So even in the days of deadly lumberjackery, you had to draw a distinction between the guy in the checked shirt with a big axe and the guy in the poplin shirt in Accounts Receivable up at the camp.
Comparative stats are a lot of fun, which is why Nationmaster can run away with your afternoon. One of the most illuminating (and alarming) things is the relative risk of being murdered in Iraq and Mexico. Mexico is now essentially a failed state adjacent to the world's only superpower, and other than lurid headlines about headless bodies being found etc. no-one seems to give a shit. I wouldn't mind betting the sex worker stats there are absolutely hair-raising.
john malpas December 23, 2010 at 10:27 pm
would not the age specific death rate show a different picture. Most prostitutes being relatively young.
john b December 24, 2010 at 3:27 am
Paul: which goes very well with Ian's point. The only reason streetwalking represents a significant part of the prostitution market is because brothels are illegal.
JM: interesting point, and it works both ways: 18-24s and 25-34s are the most likely age groups to be murdered, while obviously older groups are far more likely to die of natural causes.
Gene Berman December 24, 2010 at 4:21 am
Not long ago, there were figures published showing that neither Alaskan crab fishing nor lumberjacking were anywhere near the most
dangerous job in America.
The most dangerous job (by far): pizza delivery!
pete December 24, 2010 at 9:48 am
"The only reason streetwalking represents a significant part of the prostitution market is because brothels are illegal."
Sounds good but in practice a fallacy. Try Spain. Brothels not only legal but ubiquitous, street girls so prolific there's just been a law enacted in this province to deter them.
Gene Berman December 24, 2010 at 3:04 pm
Pete:
I'd think that being "prolific,"–in and of itself, would seriously deter them.
GaryP December 25, 2010 at 12:19 am
Off topic question:
I have read that the murder rate in Great Britain is keep low by filing what are really murders in other categories of the crime statistics.
Any thoughts on that issue?
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Collective decision making and social interaction rules in mixed-species flocks of songbirds.
Farine DR., Aplin LM., Garroway CJ., Mann RP., Sheldon BC.
Associations in mixed-species foraging groups are common in animals, yet have rarely been explored in the context of collective behaviour. Despite many investigations into the social and ecological conditions under which individuals should form groups, we still know little about the specific behavioural rules that individuals adopt in these contexts, or whether these can be generalized to heterospecifics. Here, we studied collective behaviour in flocks in a community of five species of woodland passerine birds. We adopted an automated data collection protocol, involving visits by RFID-tagged birds to feeding stations equipped with antennae, over two winters, recording 91 576 feeding events by 1904 individuals. We demonstrated highly synchronized feeding behaviour within patches, with birds moving towards areas of the patch with the largest proportion of the flock. Using a model of collective decision making, we then explored the underlying decision rule birds may be using when foraging in mixed-species flocks. The model tested whether birds used a different decision rule for conspecifics and heterospecifics, and whether the rules used by individuals of different species varied. We found that species differed in their response to the distribution of conspecifics and heterospecifics across foraging patches. However, simulating decisions using the different rules, which reproduced our data well, suggested that the outcome of using different decision rules by each species resulted in qualitatively similar overall patterns of movement. It is possible that the decision rules each species uses may be adjusted to variation in mean species abundance in order for individuals to maintain the same overall flock-level response. This is likely to be important for maintaining coordinated behaviour across species, and to result in quick and adaptive flock responses to food resources that are patchily distributed in space and time.
10.1016/j.anbehav.2014.07.008
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Cyanistes caeruleus, Paridae, Parus major, collective behaviour, decision making, interspecific interaction, mixed-species flocking, social information use


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If the people who pick the team, can't see how out of his depth he is, then Im calling them out. We're playing almost all the time with ten men!
Handsome Devil Full Member
No, not Lisbon..Lisburn!
Only time I noticed him yesterday was his little Scrappy-Doo moment before Rom bundled him away with one arm. Says it all really.
Unfortunately as bad as he was yesterday we've about 6/7 players who need to leave before he does.
Raees Legal Guardian of the Football forums
Exactly. Problem is we seem to have a first team full of Sergi Roberto's and therefore even players who would be good squad players in other circumstances, are being thrust into first team status and being judged according to that standard.
Ole needs to work out which one's he can do without, which ones to keep and demote to squad status and bring in first team quality.
I think Lingard has shown enough about him to be a useful squad player but his game time needs to be drastically reduced if we are going to get somewhere.
iKeano Full Member
Massively overrated. Like a poor man's Park... And I was never a lover of Park in terms of footballing ability.
Surely Man Utd should have players that can "put in a shift" and "get about a bit" and "Harry opposition" but also have skill and class on the ball?!
Lingard typifies the "grafts a lot" excuse that's mooted these days - Young being another living on this mindsets coat tails. These lads play for Man Utd... A shift should be the minimum. They should be running their nuts off every single minute of every game.
His last 2 or 3 months are down there with the absolute worst I've seen from a Utd first team player.
He's contributing absolutely nothing.
vangagal Full Member
Far away from home
Dont drag Park to the mud with this turd. Maybe like Jones, he got hanging around in United because supposedly Fergie once said he is a late bloomer. How late i dont know. Maybe its too late to realised then.
Keefy18 Full Member
But he gets a completely free pass from many...sure he's still a young lad and to develop!
For me one of the worst outfield players to play so consistently for United in the history of the club.
-Supreme- New Member
The moment yesterday where he could easily have taken an open shot with his left foot close to goal but decided to turn back on his right with defenders already crowded in that space...
Let's hope we don't see him anywhere near the first team next season
Mr.Plow New Member
Isotope said: ↑
So did Cleverly while he was at Utd. I'll echo what other people have been saying, he truly is the worst player I've seen to get a consistent run at Utd.
JoaquinJoaquin Full Member
Absolute fecking disgrace lately. Worst thing is, even his famous 'running' seems to of toned down. Watch his early games for us and how much he ran around compared to now. He has even got complacent with that and that was the one thing he done well.
Sums up the complete mediocrity our squad has now become.
ManchesterYoda Full Member
Lingard is 26 years old, he is not a kid.
15/16 season 19(6) average rating = 6.7.
17/18 season 20(13) average rating = 6.8.
Lingard is not good enough for Manchester United and is not going to improve. He is a 6/10 player. If we want to build a strong team we need a team of 7/10s with a few 8/10s thrown into the mix. At present we have only 1 player that is capable of being 8/10 over a season, Pogba.
ManchesterYoda said: ↑
And ironically, Pogba gets the most abuse!
Like Rashford, Martial Herrera and Matic that injury against PSG/Liverpool has completely finished him for this season, utterly shocking in these last few games
OldTrevil Full Member
I liked Lingard when he came through and thought he would go on to improve and become a handful little player, but over the last four years it hasn't happened. And to top it off he doesnt have a case of mistreatment and lack of game as all the mangers since van gaal have played him fairly constantly. Sad to say but he's not United quality, definitely should not be starting games.
Freak said: ↑
Sadly he has no value due to the £110k/week wages. Any club interested in him couldn't get close to those wages. So we're stuck with him.
wythyred Full Member
He was a shambles yesterday.
I was saying to a mate that I was concerned about his influence on Rashford as he's the squads "class clown" and even though he has had some big performances for us in recent years I just don't see him ever being better than bang average.
Steven-UK New Member
wythyred said: ↑
It's a strange thing with Lingard you know. I was watching him yesterday in particular whilst at the match, and it's almost like he is somebody who has just ran onto the pitch, like a fan who somehow managed to get hold of an official kit and blended in with the team.
I seriously doubt he would get into most premiership teams the way he is playing. He is still living off that good patch of form he had last year, and a few decent games for England.
The thing is, you want him to succeed and do well, but his form this season has been shocking since December, and if he hadn't come through the academy, he wouldn't be anywhere near this team, and whilst we continue to play players of his quality, we won't get anywhere near to a premiership trophy either.
OGS needs to stop with the favourtism, Mourinho did it with Lukaku, and it is almost like playing with 10 men. X that by the fact that we are struggling anyway, and it is easy to see why we are not progressing as we could be.
BlackBen New Member
Lingard is a nothing player and not even fit to be a squad player at United. I've never seen an inconsistent player like him who is supposed to be in his peak at 27yrs.
He looks good in 1 or 2 games and goes missing for 20. I can't help but think that if he wasn't English or from the academy he would have been sold a long time ago.
We need to get rid of him. Lazini and Anderson are far better players but are at West Ham so why should Lingard still be here at United? Is mediocrity our new "standard"?
ForestRGoinUp Full Member
BlackBen said: ↑
By the looks of it, yes. We have many many more players at Lingards level than we do at Even Rashford and Martial level (and those two are squad level for United not First XI).
ForestRGoinUp said: ↑
Agreed, especially the last part of your post.
Martial (as much as I like him) and Rashford should be options off our bench and not automatic starters. You have a peek at City's squad and you see the huge difference in quality.
Any player on a City bench is as good as the starting player hence competition is keen and rife because no one's position is guaranteed. But here at United, we have Ole's favorites "Rashy" and Lingard ( and Young) who can do no wrong and are almost automatic starters who even when are having bad games are still left on.
Are we serious as a club at all?
redDNA New Member
Lingard has to be one of the luckiest players to have ever to be stealing a living at United.
He has so many things going for him.
(1) If you dont know his age you will think that he's in his early 20s , hence overlook his inconsistency(or lack of football ability).
(2) For some bizarre reasons, most of us fans and the media will focus on the coaches and some better performers like Pogba while Lingard goes unnoticed when the team is not performing well.
(3) He plays way more than he should be playing for United because the three coaches play him more than necessary.
One of the positives of Ole's appointment is that players like Lingard, Young, Jones ans Smalling have no place to hide, unlike during Mourinho's and LVG's eras.
What is worrying though is that Ole seems to have a blind spot for Lingard just like Mou for Lukaku and LVG for Wayne.
Ole has more explanation to give for allowing Lingard to finish the game than the actual performance.
Steerpike Full Member
iKeano said: ↑
I agree with this. Presumably that means the likes of Pogba and Martial should also be looking forward to some extended bench time.
Or are we applying a bit of a double standard here (where 'talented' players are allowed to coast, and those with less ability are vilified however hard they work)?
Before he was injured, Lingard was one of our better performers and one of the most important players in Ole's team. Since returning from injury he has struggled for form, and was poor against West Ham (along with plenty of others).
Spot on.
Steerpike said: ↑
He hasn't been one of our better performance's since December 2017 in that purple patch of 5 games. Just look at his stats, if you can't just watch what he does (or doesn't) on the pitch.
He has poor passing ability (passes the ball behind his team mate or to the opposition/backwards or sideways), has no composure in front of goal (especially when he has time) goes missing for large spells of a games (where you genuinely forget he's playing), is weak and gets knocked off the ball, has very little pace and often misses the obvious ball plus he acts like a super star when off the pitch.
I've had enough. Please get shut in the summer.
Cassidy No longer at risk of being mistaken for a Scouser
When did he ever really get started this season? 4 goals and 2 assists in the premier league? He isn't good enough and has never been good enough to be a starter at this club.
He is a useful squad player and even at times thats pushing it.
An Irish Red New Member
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He got two goals and an assist against an awful Cardiff in December; since then, in four months, he's recorded one goal and one assist. And the assist was a two yard pass to Pogba who scored from range.
Completely mediocre player.
An Irish Red said: ↑
Enough for some to call him one of Ole's top performers. Mad.
Oh come on with this crap. He had a good game against Cardiff where we scored 5 goals and he had plenty of shit games before his injury as well. We were winning though and many gave him a pass.
When an experienced gets praised for doing something most football should as a pre-requesite, you know something is wrong. I'm talking about all the "he runs a lot"
sp_107 New Member
We have more serious problems than Lingard, atleast he didn't cost us much as he is our academy product
At his top of the game he could just be a squad player and it's managers wish to keep or replace him but we can't address every frekking wrong thing with our team in one window !!! Patience guys ! Takes 2/3 transfer windows to clear so many duds
Our first choice XI, while we were playing our best football of the season (perhaps our only spell of good football), included Lingard. His run of games under Ole before his injury, starting with Cardiff and ending with Leicester were generally decent (the Sky website was giving him an average rating of around 7 through that period). It wasn't just Cardiff - I recall, for example, that he had good games against Tottenham and Arsenal away as well.
I agree that he hasn't played well lately, and I have no issues with him spending some time on the sidelines if someone else comes into the side and makes it better. Unfortunately I could make the same observation about any number of our players.
What is irritating is this nonsense where people make excuses for supposedly 'great' players when they put in half-arsed performances (it's the managers fault, the people around him aren't good enough, other players aren't making the right runs...blah-de-blah-de-blah), whilst consistently criticising players who generally do put a shift in but are seen as 'average' (presumably this means their scores on Football Manager just don't stack up). That's really the point I was making.
We played our best football mainly due to much better players around him playing as they should, and Lingard was a passenger while having bang average games in that period, and people gave him a free pass. He was good against Spurs as far as I remember but he had lots of poor games as well. I mentioned that on here and as you imagined it was "hating".
No excuses should be made for no one. Martial has had a disruptive period with injuries as well, and he is getting destroyed on here, even though we know how good is one of them compared to the other.
No, he wasn't.
redDNA said: ↑
He also is fortunate that he gets a very easy ride from the press aswell for some reason, whether it's because he is English and plays for the NT I don't know. MEN even gave him a 5 out of 10 for Saturday
Stadjer Full Member
JoaquinJoaquin said: ↑
If i dont notice a player at all during a match or he only plays for 5/10 minutes and doesnt do anything special in those minutes i also give a 5 or 6. Nobody even noticed Lingard playing so i guess they just put a 5 on him....
Not noticing a attacking Manchester United player who played 90 minutes is pretty bad.. i gave him a 3 and thought that was generous.
I thought Lingard could be a decent squad player for when Manchester United starts to compete for big things again but i am questioning that. He just really isnt good at any aspect of football.. even his so called "great of the ball runs" arent that great.
MyOnlySolskjaer Creator of Player Performance threads
Player Performance Threads
Can't have a 5 goal a season forward play regularly and expect to make the Top 4.
tomaldinho1 Full Member
I think he's a decent 10 but should not be played wide and deeper in the midfield. Currently Pogba is our advanced midfielder so Lingard and Mata often fight over the same RW slot that neither actually want.
tomaldinho1 said: ↑
Why is he a decent number 10? Isn't that role to create? How many chances can he create? He struggles to pass forward.
Bojan11 said: ↑
Yh but you're judging him on his stats playing in a position that doesn't suit him. I don't think he's a top player but I think he'd be a decent 10 - issue is we have better players for that role already